Amazon, the second-largest private employer in the world, with 1.5 million workers, is accelerating its use of warehouse robots as part of a major automation drive, The New York Times reported on ...

Robots have been a staple at Amazon warehouses for more than a decade, performing tasks formerly completed by humans, including picking, sorting and moving packages. Now, Amazon plans to make human ...

Amazon pulled the plug on Blue Jay, its high-profile warehouse robot, in January 2026, barely three months after the system was introduced at a splashy company event. The rapid shutdown of a project ...

Inside Amazon’s 100,000-square-foot Greenwood warehouse—which provides the greater Indianapolis area same-day shipping for everything from paper plates to vitamins—robots and people collaborate in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On July 1, a week before Prime Day, Amazon workers at the vast RDU1 warehouse south of Raleigh returned from half-hour shift ...

Amazon is planning to replace more than half a million jobs in the US with robots, according to a new report. Warehouse automation will enable the e-commerce giant to avoid hiring over 600,000 people ...

An Amazon delivery driver wears smart glasses displaying real-time navigation and delivery instructions directly in his field of vision, during Amazon's "Delivering ...

Amazon's latest AI-driven machine, 'Blue Jay', is escalating concerns about jobs. A new mechanical worker has landed in Amazon's warehouses, and it's stirring up an old fear: are our jobs safe? Amazon ...

Amazon believes it can use robots to avoid adding more than half a million jobs in the next eight years, The New York Times reports. NPR's A Martinez speaks to Times reporter Karen Weise. Amazon's ...

Amazon’s Pegasus robotic drive system retrieves finished packages from employees and sorts them for delivery. Pegasus is one of three kinds of robots Amazon uses in its warehouses. (Photo courtesy of ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Amazon's RDU1 warehouse uses metrics to track speed, quality, and efficiency. Robots like 'Hercules' automate transport and packaging ...